Diary WW2

Diary for Tuesday, June 26, 1945: Air War Pacific: Radar-equipped B-29 Superfortress bomb Utsube Oil Refinery at Yokkaichi, near Nagoya: first of 15 heavy night raids on Japanese oil targets […]

Diary for Tuesday, June 25, 1940: Home Fronts Germany – Armistice celebrations: Hitler issues proclamation announcing ‘the end of the war in the West’ and ‘the most glorious victory of

Diary for Monday, June 25, 1945: Occupied countries Austria: Allies announce their four zones of occupation. Sea War Pacific: TF 92 – cruisers Richmond and Concord with 4 destroyers –

Diary for Sunday, June 24, 1945: Home Fronts Russia – Victory Parade in Moscow: captured Nazi banners are ceremonially dragged across Red Square.

Diary for Monday, June 24, 1940: Politics FRANCO-ITALIAN ARMISTICE signed at Villa Inchesa, near Rome, by General Huntziger and Marshal Badoglio. Armistice Terms: demilitarized zones to be established along Franco-Italian

Diary for Sunday, June 23, 1940: Occupied countries France: General de Gaulle forms French National Committee in London. Hitler makes sightseeing tour of Paris. France Italians occupy Riviera resort of

Diary for Saturday, June 23, 1945: Politics Agreement in Moscow between Polish administrations in London and Lublin on formation of Provisional Government.

Diary for Friday, June 22, 1945: Okinawa AMERICANS SECURE OKINAWA. New Guinea Australians drive Japanese 18th Army from Mountains Tazaki and Shiburangu (June 22 and 27). Okinawa Campaign Losses: [tableX

Diary for Saturday, June 22, 1940: France ARMISTICE BETWEEN FRANCE AND GERMANY signed at Compiegne by General Keitel (Germany) and General Huntziger (France). Signing ceremony takes place in Marshal Foch‘s

Diary for Thursday, June 21, 1945: Okinawa Americans capture Hill 89.

Diary for Friday, June 21, 1940: Politics Hitler attends Franco-German armistice negotiations in Forest of Compiegne. Air War 50 German aircraft make scattered night raids over many parts of England,

Diary for Wednesday, June 20, 1945: Okinawa Americans reach Hill 89, location of Japanese emergency HQ. Philippines US forces reach Aparri, having advanced 322 km north along Cagayan Valley in

Diary for Thursday, June 20, 1940: Sea War German battlecruiser Gneisenau torpedoed off Trondheim by British submarine Severn. France Germans capture Lyons. Saumur Cadets forced surrendering when ammunition supplies for

Diary for Wednesday, June 19, 1940: Western Front Germans capture Brest naval base, and begin crossing river Loire on broad front. Cadets of Saumur Cavalry School under Colonel Michon prevent

Diary for Tuesday, June 19, 1945: Home Fronts USA: 4 million people give Eisenhower ‘ticker-tape’ welcome in New York City.

Diary for Tuesday, June 18, 1940: France Rommel captures Cherbourg; 5th Panzer Division captures Brest. All large French towns to be surrendered without resistance. Civil administrators and military forces to

Diary for Monday, June 18, 1945: Okinawa Lieutenant-General Buckner fatally wounded by artillery shell at forward observation post; aged 58. Occupied countries Germany: Colonel-General Berzarin, outspoken Soviet military commander in

Diary for Monday, June 17, 1940: Politics Petain requests Germany’s and Italy’s armistice terms via Spanish Ambassador and the Vatican; he broadcasts to French Army and people: ‘… it is

Diary for Sunday, June 17, 1945: Air War Pacific: B-29 Superfortress of 21st BC, 20th Air Force, carry out first of series of complex night incendiary raids on 58 of

Diary for Sunday, June 16, 1940: France Guderian captures Besancon. Home Fronts France: Reynaud Cabinet resigns; PETAIN FORMS NEW GOVERNMENT. General Weygand, Minister of Defense. British Ambassador presents Draft Declaration